THE ELEVATION OF ELEPHANT

Hello to everyone!

I am the new one on the list and not sure are you going to be interested on the subject of the origin of the word "elephant" and the hypothesis that all Indoeuropean languages were based on the "formula" SUR-BEL+UM.

Cordially,

Dusan Vukotic


"All Indo-European languages were created according to formula SUR-BEL+UM (Serb. um - Eng. mind).

Let us see is it possible to prove above mentioned hypothesis.

Serbian name (Serbs, Serbli, ??????, Se?ß???, ????????) is not of an unknown origin as the Serbian and world science asserts today.

Serbs are Surbelans and their name preserved the two most ancient syllables "sur" and "bel" representing the Sun deities of the antique era – Sur and Bel.

Sur is probably the first articulated word that ever appeared on the planet Earth. It is well known deity in the East (Sskr. Surya, Russ. Zarya ????). In Serbian and some other Slavic languages it means Dawn.

Bel – mythological god, known also as Bal, Belos, Veles (Serbian adjective "belo" (white), "velik" (big).

The literal meaning of Sur Bel (where the name of Serbs /Ser-Bli/ came from) is White Dawn.

There are other words in Serbian derived from the ancient Sur: zoriti (to dawn), žuriti (to haste, rush), žarko (hot), ozariti (cheer up, the look of the face as the Sun was lit on); all clearly connected with dawn and the rising Sun.

God Bel: belo (white), oblo (round, the shape of the Sun), oblak (cloud; cloud is clothing the Sun; why?; Serb. oblaciti clothe ), obala (coast), blato (mud), ploviti (float), plivati (swim), plav (blue)…

Sargon – the name of the King of Akkad. We shall see later how important is this name for the understanding of genesis of the speech. It is the Czar who "chases" (pursue, bait, hunt, drive, prosecute), Serbian Car (Czar) koji (who) goni (pursues).

Balkan – peninsula in the south of Europe; the name created similarly to Sargon (god Bel that "pursues" goni).

S(h)urla(n) – Serbian surname; abbreviation of the agglutinated surbelanian form Sur-Bel-gon.

Slon – farther abbreviation of the above mentioned "surlan" in Serbian. Slon is the name of the biggest ground mammal (elephant). This is the rule of elimination of the sound "r" and we shall still talk about it later. Hence the Serbian verb "slivati", "livati", "levati" (Greek e??fa?ta?, Eng. elephant, elevate, level the words obviously connected with "livati" pour, shed; if you pour water into a basin its level will rise, elevate). Serb. u-livalo, Lat. libation pour the wine in honor of a deity, libellus book Serb. s-livati fuse, s-lovo letter, s-lava celebration. Additional argument that Slon is a short form from Surlan: Serb. surla elephant's proboscis (nose) often used to pour water over the body of elephant.


Sur-Bel-riti – agglutinated surbelanian form wherefrom we have Serbian words sabirati¹⁾ bring together, zboriti talk, izvor(iti) spring, izbor selection, zavarati trick, zavariti weld, zavrteti spin, saobracati staging, communicate, zbor, sabor assemblage, svariti digest, sviratiplay , honk,(i)spirati irrigate, syringe. All the above mentioned Serbian words are strictly and logically connected. Sabor²⁾ is the gathering place where people might have been assembled for a certain sort of work or to make a preparation for war. Of course, such a meeting could not be imagined without speech (Serb. sabor > zbor > zboriti; similar to Eng. crowd > cry cried – Serb. graja > raja > grajiti).

¹⁾ Serbian verb sabirati collect was used for the creation of the noun brat (brother). Hence the other Serbian words, sabrati (add, reckon, compile), saobracati (communicate), and the verb obrta-ti (rotate, Lat. orbita) where the initial sound "s" has been detached. When someone is looking for help, Serbs would say: "Obrati se bratu!, i.e. "ask the brother for help".

²⁾ As we can see, in the sense of sounds this word is similar to the Eng. sober. Obviously, after a heavy booze the man "need time to bring himself in order", apropos Serbian sabrati (treba mu vreme da se sabere; da li si se sabro = are you sober). On the other side is the Latin word super - above, on top. What really happened? It is well-known fact that modern etymology of European languages can not go any further but to stay immovable in the "quicksand" of Greek and Latin. No one ever took the Slavic tongues in a serious consideration. Let us compare Serbian survati to fall down rapidly and sabrati, actually surbati> sabrati. Clearly, it is a small metathesis, made only for the purpose of "notion's determinations"! Lautverschiebung b>v is fairly understandable according to phonetic laws. Thus, sabrati to collect comes after survati to fall down, and no matter what we were pilinig up it will going to rise up (above), like a Serbian stog – a stack of hay.

(I took out your link, Surya. It didn't work, and I think that we have enough to think about in this first page, anyway.-- MM)